More than a month after the devastating March 28 earthquake, exhausted relief workers in Mandalay and nearby areas continue to toil in difficult conditions that have left some of them traumatised. We hear from relief workers who have been deeply affected by the death and suffering around them.
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More than a month after the devastating March 28 earthquake, exhausted relief workers in Mandalay and nearby areas continue to toil in difficult conditions that have left some of them traumatised. We hear from relief workers who have been deeply affected by the death and suffering around them.
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An early pledge by the parallel National Unity Government to replace Myanmar’s racist citizenship law raised hopes for marginalised communities, but impatience is growing as revolutionary groups trade blame for the delays.
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Ko Min said he found his son and daughter's bodies in the ruins of a schoolhouse in central Myanmar, moments after a deadly airstrike that witnesses said came as a military jet circled the village.
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It’s been difficult to get accurate information on the conflict in northern Rakhine State. But Doh Athan has heard first-hand accounts from Buthidaung residents on what happened when the AA captured the town in May.
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Myanmar people seeking shelter in India’s northeastern Manipur state have been scapegoated for local bouts of ethnic conflict, in contrast to the largely warm reception in neighbouring Mizoram state.
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Myanmar's junta on Wednesday extended the state of emergency by six months, again delaying fresh polls it has promised to hold as it battles opposition to its coup.
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Relatives of those forcibly conscripted by the Myanmar military have little contact with their loved ones, and live in constant fear that they could be sent to fight and die for a cause they don’t believe in.
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If a child is arrested, they should get extra protection under the law. But youths who have spent time in juvenile detention centres in Myanmar since the 2021 coup have told Doh Athan that conditions are as bad as in prisons, if not worse.
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Fighters from the United Wa State Army, Myanmar's most powerful ethnic armed group, have moved into a strategic town fought over by the junta and another ethnic armed group for weeks, they and the military said yesterday.
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The Myanmar military has been accused of using chemical weapons for decades, but definitive evidence has remained out of reach, partly due to bureaucratic deadlock and a lack of international support.
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The American radical scholar and author of The Art of Not Being Governed and other seminal books once dodged death threats in Yangon and rode a vintage motorcycle to Mandalay.
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Most Lashio residents have fled fighting between the Myanmar military and ethnic armed groups, who haven’t been welcomed as liberators by those who have had their lives upended by the conflict.
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